Pattern Formation in a Cavity Longer than the Coherence Length of the Light in It

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Carmon, Tal ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

COHERENCE LENGTH; CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; KERR NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL CAVITIES; PATTERN FORMATION;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0142135733     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.183902     Document Type: Article

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